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Festivals

Interview: Minh Quý Trương

By Laura Davis
October 3, 2019
Lost in space: a collage of archival material and improvisatory camerawork, The Tree House articulates a sense of longing from a place of exile

Playlist: NYFF57 Contest

By Clinton Krute
October 3, 2019
In the groove: this year’s selection is also notable for its wealth of music, with films from Scorsese to Sciamma employing pop songs as narrative fulcrums

Elia Kazan’s America

By Estelle Changas
October 1, 2019
In this 1972 essay, Changas explores the director’s body of work and commercial decline. America America screens at the NYFF on October 2

Unquiet Spirits: Atlantics, Vitalina Varela, and Martin Eden

By Imogen Sara Smith
September 30, 2019
On three strikingly beautiful films at NYFF57: Mati Diop’s Atlantics, Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela, and Pietro Marcello’s Martin Eden

Matters of Life and Death: Nadav Lapid

By Jordan Cronk
September 30, 2019
The director of Synonyms looks within to portray the essence of the outlier

Interview Excerpt: Céline Sciamma

By Amy Taubin
September 27, 2019
Read an excerpt from an forthcoming interview with the director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, one of the most anticipated films of the year

Killing for a Living

By Rodrigo Prieto
September 27, 2019
The cinematographer of Martin Scorsese’s much-anticipated The Irishman evokes the passing of eras for a dedicated, deadly workingman

The Film Comment Podcast: NYFF 2019 #1

By Nicolas Rapold
September 25, 2019
Looking ahead: Ashley Clark and Farihah Zaman join to preview highlights from NYFF, kicking off this Friday

Dispatch: Women Making Film at Toronto 2019

By Devika Girish
September 24, 2019
Women of the world, take over: this year’s festival featured bracing, inspired films by up-and-coming women directors from all over the world

Interview: Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche

By Devika Girish
September 18, 2019
Here, there, and everywhere: the director of Terminal Sud discusses the universal resonances of his elliptical French-Algerian thriller